The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-07-14
FEMININE FANcIEs.
Hints Regarding rIIs latest Styles ant
Novelties in Dress.

Hints Regarding rIrs latest Styles and
Novelties in Dress.
Bonnet strings are very short when
any are worn.
Beaded passementeries are worn on
dressy frocks.
The tight coat sleeve will soon be a
thing of the past.
The Frances Cleveland turban is the
favOrite small hat of the season.
The sleeve with puff from the elbow
to the shoulder grows in favor.
1t is not considered in good taste to
wear much jewelry in very warm
weather.
Now is the time to cover sofas, cush-
ions and chairs with lace scarfs and
tides.
All fine luxurious pleasure carriages
are shod with India rubber tires in
England.
The Prince and Princess of Wales
always ride in vehicles with India rub
Der tires.
The bicycle for gentlemen and the
tricycle. for ladies is very fashionable in
New Jersey.
Flower necklaces with ends falling to
the waist of the bodice are coming in
vogue for summer festivals.
India rubber break blocks are the
proper things with which to grip
wheel, so as to prevent all noises, jar
or strain when stopping a vehicle.
The latest craze in fancy work is
modelling flowers in gutta-percha paste.
1t is not Il very recent invention, but it
has only recently been pOpularized as
fancy work.
There are many new and some very
eccentric sleeves sent out by the makers
of fashions this season, all of which
shows the tendency to abandon the
old favorite. tight coat sleeves.
For riding the correct wear is the
high bell-crowned silk hat, but for the
country lady riders prefer the rourd-
crowned derby or ahe jocky cap made
of the material of the habit.
Pale blue is a wonderful decorative
color on green lawn, whether used
for flower vases of blue delft, or for
painted seats, lattices, or any of the
ornamental work put on lawns or in
the garden, or blue flowers.
The coaching cape of the season
covers the shoulders and reaches to the
waist. 1t is made of checked, barred
or small plaid tobacco-brown home
spun, with high collar and small tabs
at the throat of seal-brown or dark
blue velvet.
1t is not the fashion ':in society," in
London to be very select in ones invi-
tations. as there is at the moment rage
for odd people" people who talk, act
and dress in defiance of the "goOd
form SO much valued, as rule, by the
English.
The long journey this summer is or
should be made in one of those long
ulsters of English homespun, with a
cap to match, which are furnished by
tailors, or by the tailor cutting and fit
ting departments in retail dry goods
houses.
The taste for shades of heliotrope is
on the increase. The value of this
color in dress has never before been
properly appreciated. 1t is discovered
to be singularly becoming to almost
every kind of beauty, blonde or brunette.
pale or rosy.
The trains Of summer bridal dresses
are frequently made detachable and of
rich satin or broche. while the entire
under dress is of light crepe, or gauze
or lace over satin, the bodice being of
the stuff of the train. The dress can
thus be converted into dancing frock.
Caps made just like cricketer's are
much worn by English women when
driving in the country in n dog cart.
for tennis, yachting and rowing. and
the young women living in those pretty
Queen Anne cottages in the Oranges,
New Jersey, affect this English style.
1t is quite the fancy to make the
sleeve below the elbow of velvet, and
tight fitting as a glove, while above
that point it is of yelling. silk, or what
ever is the material of the dress, and
made to form a graceful sagging puff
with plaits stitched down about an inch
or two inches from the arm-hole.
After all the sailor hat of rough
straw, with n rather wide brim turned
up behind. or narrow one straight all
around, and trimmed with nothing but
n plain blue, red. green, black, or white
band, with rackets or bats Oh the
streamers. is the preferred wear for
tennis. croquet and other out-of-door
games.
Dotted stuffs are so fashionable that
even chemises and other pieces of under
wear are made of fine muslins and
linens, dotted all over with red, blue or
lilac spots, and sometimes all three of
these colors. Then the yoke. bands
and monogram are worked i'll the same
colors. while fine yalencienneS lace
trims the whole garments.-N. Y. Sun.